You may be the only person on the earth who feels this way. Literally no one else is still making these comparisons. We have all adapted.
Having more wakeup options ALWAYS results in you eating more damage?
I guess where I’m confused is, why should you pay a higher price for breaking away? It used to be breaker, which didn’t even cost a full meter, reset you completely safely to neutral and didn’t knock you down.
The problem is is like... I'm not looking to make someone pay IMMEDIATELY for breaking away although I'm in the Sonicfox camp of that there should be no breaker in this game period. But blocking isn't a big deal in this game and isn't really scary, so for even the long term post-break scenario for the other guy it usually isn't that much of a sacrifice. It's not gonna be removed, so all I would like is for it to be less available. It creates a frustrating gameplay experience especially in slow paced matches. I've started doing only fully grounded combos or string into special knockdowns so I can force them off the meter instead of letting them have the breakaway and I've gotten results playing this way.
Let me clarify.
I think that first statement is a pretty big assumption though. As far as availability, you can realistically only break once every 30 seconds, so most of the time you're only going to see it once per round, maybe twice.
Obviously, taking a full combo and then getting hit on wakeup is going to do the most damage. But if you break away after 14% damage, and then get hit with a full combo into 30% damage, now you've taken 44% total, facing wakeup pressure, and have no defensive options. That's more than if you'd have taken the 30% combo and been able to wake up without getting hit. Even if you just take a throw and reset neutral that's still 28% total (close to what the combo would have done) and now you're without defensive options, at risk of taking big damage if your opponent can get a combo soon.